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1080 to DigiBeta Workflow questons???
We are going to have footage for commercial shoot 1080/24p HD Cam. We currently do not have HD editing capabilities (not enough drives, no HD deck) but we have to offline thus spot in our facility. My idea is to have footage transfered to Digi Beta for offline editing and than take EDL’s to some other facility for online. I originally thought that footage should be shot 1080i/29.97 so timecodes from HD and when transfered to DigiBetas match. I thought that should be easiest workflow but production company really insist on shooting 1080/24p. If we go with 1080/24p footage transfered to digibeta are we going to experience any problems later with conforming our edl’s for online editing? What is best workflow for our situation?
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Let me try to rephrase my questions. Do you see any potential problems if we shoot 1080/24p and transfer everything to DigiBeta for offline editing (SD/29.97) and than go back to 1080/24p in online session?
Do you think I should use Cinema Tools for EDL’s?
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[gnu] “Let me try to rephrase my questions. Do you see any potential problems if we shoot 1080/24p and transfer everything to DigiBeta for offline editing (SD/29.97) and than go back to 1080/24p in online session?
Do you think I should use Cinema Tools for EDL’s?”Sure there’s potential problems. 29.97 DigiBeta will have TC numbers that don’t exist on the 24p originals. Could cause issues when they re-capture the footage and could cause some issues in the resulting timeline. It has happened here in the past when we conform SD to HD from other folks and what we have to do is manually go back in and re-capture footage that does not capture correctly due to “missing” TC.
Best workflow is to have the HD post house capture everything at DVCpro HD 1080/24 so you can do the offline and then send your project back to them for the online. Simple FW800 drives are enough to handle DVCPro HD and since you’re only offlining, you can cut the entire thing on your computer monitors.
If they have an Avid, the best way to handle this is the Automatic Duck Pro Import on the Avid side. You export an XML and they open that as an Avid project on their end for the online.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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thank you walter!
that’s what i was afraid of.
dvcpro HD sounds like way to go.
what do you think about maybe shooting everything 1080/29.97 so we keep TC 29.97 from the beginning to the end. is that going to help us to avoid potential problems during onlining.
is 1080/24 really superior visually comparing to 1080/29.97?
thanks one more time.
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